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 Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 11:55 am
AmarynthosPage of the Moon MOOD: Curious/Optimistic ACTION: Locked arms with Ephesus, standing with Alastor and Sessrumnir and talking to Lucasta Amarynthos glanced at Ephesus, watching him try to work off the wrapper, and then he smiled at Lucasta when she offered to help. He hadn’t wanted to take it from Ephesus without making sure that he wanted help, but he was grateful that Lucasta was being so kind and helpful. He hoped it would help soothe Ephesus; he knew this was already probably pretty stressful for him, and he always seemed to second guess himself.
“It’s nice to meet you,” he said; rather than a performative act of social lip-service, he seemed sincere. “I promise, we’ll be careful. Effie and I have run into them, even before we were Moon Pages. I think I’d rather them just be monsters, I don’t understand how people can still have friends and still be such monsters. But no amount of kinship is going to tempt me or Effie, we’re best friends so nothing Chaos can give us trumps that. Or the other friends we have.” He spared a quick look to Alastor and Sessrumnir, and then smiled back at her. “Thank you for worrying about us.”
He might have been new but he’d seen what the Negaverse could do. Between trying to kill Atticus for no reason, for attacking his parents, for destroying his house, Amarynthos was pretty sure no amount of smiles and hugs was ever going to convince him they weren’t the bad guys.AlastorEternal Deep Space Senshi of Despair MOOD: Guarded/Trying to stay calm ACTION: Talking to Ephesus, Lucasta, Amarynthos, and Sessrumnir Alastor seemed to relax somewhat when the boys and Lucasta were talking. He kept his eyes on Almadel for a moment longer, but even if he was trying to avoid Sessrumnir’s gaze while he was upset, it was short lived. He relented and nodded to Lucasta–a quiet, greeting–and then looked back to Sessrumnir.
He was still a bit agitated, but he was trying very much to shove away those feelings. For now.
They had more pressing things to worry about. Like, what they were doing here, and why.
Alastor was still being cautious about sharing that he wasn’t Earth-born, so when he spoke again it was with deliberate intent to only be heard by the four closest to him. Mostly Michael and Lucasta, since he doubted the Moon Pages would have any information unknown to him already.
“...This really isn’t what I imagined ‘Astraya’ to look like. There are cities on Alastor that look better than this.” Looked, maybe, was more accurate. But, he hadn’t seen them in so long, he could hope.
He sounded doubtful, like it was more likely that it was just a name someone had borrowed rather than the name he was familiar with, even if only just from old myths and legends. But then, there was so much he didn’t know about what had happened in the universe since he’d been sealed away from it and now.
…Or, maybe he was just biased for his homeworld.
Either way, this wasn’t what he’d guessed a wealthy, powerful, immortal world would look like.
…The state of some of these robots really wasn’t helping.
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 11:59 am
XamiraOrder Guardian CatMOOD: Curious ACTION:Going to investigate. Xamira looked over at the knight. "I understand completely. I am going to go and do some investigating and see what I can find out. I think I will check the ship out a little. Maybe we can meet up later?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 2:16 pm
Corrupt Sailor MizukiSenshi of LilacsMOOD: Bored af ACTION: Tapping on her communicator and wandering off She was all ready to fight when that venus page started getting upity at the aliens. Hells, she was ready to fight when that teal skin senshi tried to fight the lieutenant. She did snort a laugh when the b***h's magic back fired, that was hilarious!
But then everything seemed to calm down? Everyone was all tightknit and staying close to each other, and it was boring! So boring! Why was she on this weird a** world anyway if it was going to be this boring? Mizuki huffed loudly and pulled out her tablet to tap a message out to her dads to keep them updated. Once was that was done, she leaned heavily on Hylo and sighed.
"Well this is no fun... Why do they all gotta be bunched up I wanna go kill someone... " she sighed again, and glanced at some of the ruins around them. "Let's go investigate these buildings Hylo!"
Then the senshi of lilacs lifted off of the other corrupt and skipped over to a building and started to inspect it. Maybe someone would wander over - you know, to make sure the corrupts weren't up to no good - and she could strike! When in doubt, make you're own entertainment, right? Right.
cibarium Zuzu is trying to get into one of the ruined buildings. For... science.
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:08 am
Encke
Transcendent Eternal Senshi of Plasma
MOOD: wtf
ACTION: Theorizing with his husbandBasiluzzo's question was a good one, but honestly, on top of everything else, it was one he wished he had a better answer to. If it was definitely bad, then he knew to be ready. If it was definitely good, maybe he could relax a bit-- No, either way, there was too much Chaos here, and he didn't know what to do with the robots and was Almadel just giving away food? ... Cheese fondue did sound good, but he couldn't eat considering the situation... Dad would tell him maybe eating would help-- "I don't know. Something about eternality... The People seemed curious, anyway." "Do you think they really have that down?"
"Do you think we could get them to tell us how?""Not really sure what that means in relation to," he gestured widely at everything in front of them, "other than there's probably something powerful here. Maybe that explains the living robots?" Probably not. He glanced to where Pendour was and where Viatrix had run off to. He shifted his weight. He bounced on his toes. "Probably part of why Kurma said this place was dangerous? And why Almadel's saying to be careful?" While also suggesting relaxing-- Viatrix
Order Mauvian, Bonded to Encke
MOOD: Fascinated
ACTION: Taking some of Almadel's cheeseAlmadel waving at her only encouraged her, and she broke the distance to Almadel and his little food assortment and the nearby robots and were those other senshi from space like Dagon and Fang? She took a moment to clock the horns, at least, on one of them. And then just as quickly, her eyes were on the offered food, and she took a cracker and poured some cheese over it-- A messy meal, but she was wide-eyed and interested (and also now she could eat with her hands whenever she wanted--) With her mouth full, she started, "It sounds like you know this place. What do you recommend checking out?" Besides for the robots -- wait, was that a robotic Luz?
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Codebreaking Conversationalist
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Codebreaking Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:36 am
Home Helper
Sapient Machine, Something Domestic (NPC)
MOOD: Excited
ACTION: Listening inThe Silver Millennium? Having been appropriately helpful--it appeared that Ash's visits to its other fellows were still queued--it waited patiently and listened in to the burgeoning conversation. The "Silver Millennium" term was one unfamiliar, but a thousand years was a believable length of time, it thought. Their whole group had been alive for a while, exploring for a while, finding for a while-- "That age sounds believable." It glanced between all three beings in front of it. "I would recommend checking out the ship as well! In addition, our friend, Blue, is likely of interest! Clarity has an intriguing observation." The lights danced along its surface once more. Was there another organic who needed assistance? It wished to show how grateful it was!
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:03 pm
Hylonome
Corrupt Senshi of Edelweiss
MOOD: Resigned
ACTION: Following Mizuki
As Mizuki peeled off of her Hylonome gave a small sigh of relief. While it was not the best idea that she had thought of there was nothing gained by being alone in a strange place when you could at least be with someone you knew, even if they were a little murder happy. But Hylonome couldn't fault Mizuki for who she was. Her gaze took in the buildings that they were headed toward and the other groups that had seemingly scattered to places unknown. The corrupt itched just to be able to go back home but seemingly that wasn't in the cards just yet. Scanning the exterior designs of the buildings Hylonome pondered just how it was they'd be able to shift enough rubble to possibly gain access into parts unknown.
Her priority was keeping tabs on her fellow team-mate to make sure she didn't get into too much trouble. Prehnite would approve ... she hoped. But for now, what was the harm in snooping around some old buildings?
"I wonder what secrets this place could be hiding. Kinda weird how there's no particular reason besides passing "trials" and a celebration heralded by organics."
Secretly Hylonome wasn't sure she appreciated the term organic being levelled at her by those sentient automatons. They seemed friendly enough from a distance but the young woman had doubts.
cibarium Hylonome's following Mizuki's approach and snooping
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 7:36 pm
EphesusPage of the MoonMOOD: Curious/Grateful ACTION: With Amarynthos, Alastor, Sessrumnir, and Lucasta, asking questions about Chaos. Ephesus was still struggling with the wrapper when Lucasta so kindly asked if he needed assistance.
“Oh,” he said and glanced down at the snack he hadn’t managed to open yet, before carefully crouching down next to Amarynthos, and in front of the Mauvian. “Yes, please. I always struggle with these things,” he sighed, but he was genuinely appreciative of her offer.
“And yes, thank you for worrying about us. We will be very careful. People who um… have Chaos,” he spoke quietly, not wanting anyone around them to hear. “They can get rid of it if they want to, can’t they? Do they know it’s bad?” Maybe it was just a misunderstanding. Maybe they didn’t know that Chaos was something that made everything feel so heavy.
He could already feel his cheeks flush with color because he had a feeling that he knew the answer.
They knew.
They knew it was bad. But maybe they didn’t care, or -- or maybe they did care and knew it was bad but were having trouble escaping it. Especially if trying to do so would put them in danger.
“Is there anything we can do to help them?” he asked, and then glanced up at Amarynthos as if to check to make sure he was asking okay questions. He didn’t want to get Sessrumnir in trouble again. SessrumnirKnight of JupiterMOOD: Cautious ACTION: With Alastor, Amarynthos, Ephesus, and Lucasta. Planning on looking for shelter just in case. Sessrumnir continued to watch Alastor, although he was alert and keeping his attention on their surroundings. As an engineer, he would have loved to learn more about the robots. He wanted to find out how they functioned, what gave them the power to communicate and act seemingly of their own accord. Or perhaps their programming was just that advanced. An infinite series of algorithms cycling through every possible scenario.
Oberon would have loved this. He probably would have immediately started talking to the robots without a care for his own safety. ’For science!’ he would say. Maybe it was a good thing that he didn’t catch sight of him. Or maybe it would have pulled him out of the rut he’d been in for the past several months since their father was killed.
“Maybe they weren’t programmed for maintenance, or something catastrophic happened that prevented them from being able to keep things fixed up,” Sessrumnir suggested, even though he was still rather cautious about their… hosts…
They’d been told it was dangerous…
And then left on their own.
“We should try to find some shelter in case we’re stuck here for a while.” He hoped not, but he knew they should be prepared.
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 11:08 pm
ALMADEL
The Mysterious Merchant
MOOD: Pleasant/Chatty
ACTION: Talking to Viatrix/Surtur/Ymir“Oh, you flatter me, Surtur. You certainly know how to charm a fellow. I like that about you.” Naturally, he enjoyed the attention, and no one could blame him for showing off his best angles under Surtur’s scrutiny. He made a bit of a show of it, even as he moved on to answer Ymir. “I haven’t been here for terribly long, just enough to set up. I’m afraid it seems as though I had a bit more time to settle in. But then, I suppose it’s not common for you all to bounce around like I do. When you wind up on a strange, otherwise inaccessible world, you can’t help but want to take advantage of it. Thankfully, I’m always prepared to entertain. My best advice is to try and go along with it. You’ll wear yourself out if you’re just fighting it.” He gestured for the cheese, and the vegetables, and turned briefly from Ymir and Surtur to address Viatrix. “But if you’re looking for somewhere to explore, oh,” he hummed, and looked over his shoulder as if some perfect location was going to appear behind him. “Well, I don’t think any place is better than the other. Although, I think you should see if there aren’t places you can wriggle that little body of yours into. I suspect you might have better luck than I do when it comes to scouting this place out. If you find anything interesting, you should bring it to me.” He covered another cracker in cheese and handed it to her. “It might be dangerous. We wouldn’t want something slipping into the wrong hands. And a place like this? Who knows what you can find.”
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 6:41 pm
Mlinzi
Order Guardian Cat
MOOD: FOOD!!!!!!!
ACTION: Stuffing his faceSo the tin-fella totally didn't here him but that was ok because any thoughts about ships went right out of his tiny little brain because the purple fellow gave him not only some cheese but a whole plate full of smothered snacks. "Oh! My! God! You are the best!" It was his only word of thanks while the man (?) put the plate of food down in front of the guardian cat. The large feline promptly dived in, cheese spraying around a little as the cat went after the coated snacks, unaware of the god awful mess he was making. It took less time then it likely should have but finally Mel surfaced from his messy, cheesy, delectable, snack. His whiskers were practically dripping in the golden stuff, which he promptly started to clean. One paw swipe at a time, enjoying the process the whole time. Like a kid 'cleaning' their hands that were covered in melted ice cream. It was still good even if it was messy as all get out. "Why is it called a 'Shark Coochi Board?" Mel asked once he got the worst of the cheese off. "And fish is always good... it just might fight back once you've ate it. I had that happen once, it was not fun times." He wrinkled his nose at that memory before shaking his head. The Space Cauldron ((You now have a furry friend for life.... or until he gets distracted XD )) Guine ((Be leery of the cheese covered cat)) Sunshine Alouette ((and the cheese covered floor))
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:32 pm
LucastaWhite Moon MauvianMOOD: Patient enough. ACTION: Heading off with Sessrumnir, Alastor, Amarynthos, and Ephesus. Lucasta was of the opinion that there were no stupid questions.
Or perhaps it was that she was of the opinion that there were rarely stupid questions. Humans were such fickle creatures. She endeavored to give them the benefit of the doubt, but she witnessed their failings much too often to think them a masterful species.
Regardless, Ephesus and Amarynthos were young, and still quite new. She would forgive them their shortcomings and reserve any disapproval she might experience for the adults in their life.
At least the boys were enthusiastic and willing to learn.
“I will answer all of your questions, but Sessrumnir is right. We should find some place less out in the open.”
She paused long enough to claw open the wrapping of Ephesus’s snack. She had her priorities, and food was one of them. If he was hungry, he should eat. He would likely need the strength if they were to find a way out of here.
Lucasta had a feeling their efforts would not be without hardship.
“Come,” she said, and turned to lead the way off, fluffy tail held confidently aloft.
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:11 pm
AshOrder Guardian CatMOOD: Excited and Curious ACTION: More questions~ and maybe going to meet the ship! Reaching back, Ash went to pat the virtual woman’s shoulder and missed as her fingers passed right through her body. She was disconcerted only for a moment before she patted the air where a shoulder should be.
“Don’t apologize, darling! If you don’t know, that’s just fine. You’re here now, hmm?” She said with warm affection. Grey ears perked and green eyes lit up, yet again, at the mention of another robot. “A Mauvian robot? Oh, I would like to meet them! I want to see the ship too! You’ll both come with me, won’t you? I still want to hear all about you and what you’ve been doing here. Oh, and why the rest of us are here too! Its hard to believe you’d just invite us from half away across the galaxy just for a party.”
She hadn’t, quite, forgotten that they still didn’t know why they were here. It was very important, in fact, but it competed mightily with her fascination and need to know more about these automatons. It was important to return home, but it would be a tragedy not to know everything about these new friends.(Fin/exit for now?)
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:04 pm
Illyria
Order Guardian Cat
MOOD: Curious
ACTION: Watches as those around her wander to parts unknown ... gets the itch to explore herself
Illyria was a little disappointed that both Xamira and Erytheia had chosen to wander off but she couldn't remain upset for too long. This place was just a fascinating little conundrum. As she listened to the welcoming that they all received from the tin man shaped robot Illyria scrunched up her nose in thought before settling down. It wouldn't do to get her fur ruffled over the fact that everyone was going on their own adventures. Heck she had four paws and a large sense of adventure so why wasn't she off adventuring already?
Wrinkling her nose once more in thought Illyria disembarked from the perch she had been resting on to go start investigating. Something seemed to be up with this place and she wanted to get answers. Why for instance, were they all here? Besides the obvious explanation of a celebration it just didn't sit right with the tiny Mauvian. Taking matters into her own paws the tiny feline slinked off into the shadows.
With a small bit of remorse for not following Ida guilting her pawsteps did Illyria vanish among the ruins of Astraya.(( exiting to another thread for the time being ))
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:40 am
SurturDeep Space Senshi of DesolationMOOD: Intrigued ACTION: Chatting with Almadel and Ymir. Offering to collect things for Almadel. Surtur tilted his head curiously at the Mauvian cats. They weren’t like any of the cats he knew, but they were definitely Mauvians. In his attempt and not making it obvious that he wasn’t from Earth he decided not to comment on any questions the Mauvians had. Maybe they were just addressing Almadel after all, although he wondered if Almadel would know --
Of course he would know! Someone so well traveled would surely know what the cheese covered Mauvian was asking about.
He’d taken a couple vegetables to chew on when the suggestion of bringing interesting things back to Almadel had him perking up with interest.
“Oh, do you think there are lots of interesting things here?” he asked as he stuffed a few more pieces of food into his mouth -- and into his subspace to snack on later. “Ymir and I can help with that. We’ll bring back anything interesting. I don’t really have a place to store what I collect right now. You’d have a much better use for them. But I do like a good search for things.”
He enjoyed the experience of collecting and hoarding, but he wasn’t so invested in all of the items he found. If he could organize them, he would be happy.
“We won’t be far, so shout if you need us for anything,” Surtur grinned at Almadel, his eyes briefly on his horns as he sighed longingly, and then stood from the table with a few more snacks in his hands. Exit with Ymir.
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:13 pm
SpartaPage of MarsMOOD: Oh that's lot of emotions, let's unpack that elsewhere ACTION: Gunna go have a sit Stars above... He wanted to smack Lourdes upside the head. He wasn't--- Sparta quickly decided it did not matter. Nothing he was going to say was going to keep Lourdes from murdering people. Not that she was going to murder anyone with magic like that. As others came to try to keep Lourdes in line, or at least calm her down, Sparta stepped off to the side. The immediate threat of bloodshed was at least over. The corrupt in the corner looking eager was another story, but he'd deal with that if she became a problem.
The robots were surprising. Very happy, incredibly sentient. Not that Sparta could say much about robots and sentience and all that. They just seemed super advanced over like... Siri or Google Assistant. Or the Boston Labs robots. They were cool! And monopolized by others. It was fine. It didn't really bother Sparta. He was...
He sighed.
He rather used to being ignored, he supposed. Man, that realization kinda hurt, ya know? Was it because he tried to fight people who were stronger than him? Was it because he'd been page for five freaking years now and had nothing to show for it?
Or was he really that forgettable?
Yeah so he wasn't exactly great at the whole knight thing. He was sure many people weren't great at the whole powered thing and they still seemed to be doing just fine! He didn't get it.
Then again, he couldn't even drag Ezra out for patrolling or training much anymore...
Some of the others wandered off towards where the main (?) robot was saying there was a ship, and others wandered off in search of objects for the merchant alien (who was a different alien than the alien senshi or the Vanguard). In general people were sticking together. In their little groups with their friends and teammates and comrades.
Raw jealousy flared heavily in Sparta's chest. It burned hot and green and painful. Knuckles popped as he clenched his fists against the rush of emotion.
He turned and vanished around some of the buildings before the emotion could overwhelm him.
[ Sparta Exit for now ]
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 6:13 pm
Caelyna
Vanguard Corporal
MOOD: [caelyna.exe has stopped responding. close the program?]
ACTION: just got smooched, experiencing brand new Gay EmotionsFae-Fae was kissing her.
Fae-Fae. Was kissing. Her. Not on the cheek. Not a sweet, friendly little peck. A real, on-the-lips kiss, in front of everyone. Her heart picked up speed, and the only thing she could think to do was throw her arms around Fae-Fae's shoulders and kiss back with all the enthusiasm of someone very radically discovering that feelings she had previously taken for Intense Friendship were, ah.
Not just Intense Friendship.
It all made sense, really, the moment Fae-Fae's lips touched hers--all of thee things she'd been carefully not paying attention to and gently writing off.
Oh. She was in love with her best friend.
....How perfect.
Even when she pulled back from the kiss, she was only half-conscious of what was going on around them--her eyes were on Fae-Fae, heart racing, and while she understood that things were happening around them--there were robots!!--she was much more concerned with saying, very softly,
"That was. Really nice."
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